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Impact Litigation

CGRS undertakes strategic impact litigation on behalf of refugees in the United States - before immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and U.S. Federal Courts of Appeals. We have also provided expert opinions before international human rights bodies and in cases in foreign jurisdictions to protect individual refugees and advance refugee law in those countries. We carefully select cases on the basis of their potential to set precedent, to advance asylum law, and to shape national and international refugee policy.

CGRS becomes involved in influential cases as counsel or co-counsel, as amicus curiae(“friend of the court”), and by providing expert consultation to other attorneys, advocates, and advocacy organizations.